fiction vs nonfiction
Definitions
noun
- a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
- a deliberately false or improbable account
Examples
The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ...
Either the recession is biting harder than I had realised or a lot of people are confused about the boundaries between fact and fiction.
But her own life was often stranger than any action-packed fiction plot.
Definitions
noun
- prose writing that is not fictional
Examples
Each of the above-named, wildly disparate authors has written at least one readable "nonfiction" book published in the last 10 years.
It's a high bar to set for a work of nonfiction.
To help our readers get in where they fit in, we've chosen nonfiction selections that look both back to our past, and forward to our future.
